Principles of the Business Rule Approach (Paperback)
暫譯: 商業規則方法原則 (平裝本)

Table of Contents

Preface.

I. THE BUSINESS PROBLEM: WHY BUSINESS RULES?: READINGS FOR BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS.

1. What's This about Business Rules?: The Problem and the Fix in a Nutshell.
2. Areas of Opportunity: Changing the Face of Business.
3. Serving Up Knowledge: The Need to Know.
4. What about IT Projects?: Where the Rubber Meets the Road.

II. BUSINESS RULE CONCEPTS: THE MECHANICS OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS.

5. Organizing Basic Business Knowledge: What You Need to Know about Terms and Facts.
6. Exercising Control: What You Need to Know about Rules.
7. Doing Work: What You Need to Know about Processes.

III. BEST PRACTICES FOR EXPRESSING RULES: BRS RULESPEAK.

8. Expressing Rules: The Dos and Don'ts.
9. Developing Rule Statements: The Basics of BRS RuleSpeak.
10. Functional Categories of Rules: The BRS Rule Classification Scheme.
11. Sentence Patterns for Rule Statements: The RuleSpeak Templates.
12. Expressing Business Logic by Using Decision Tables: The RuleSpeak Approach.

IV. WHAT IS THE BUSINESS RULE APPROACH?: READINGS FOR IT PROFESSIONALS.

13. More Principles of the Business Rule Approach: A New View of Business Logic.
14. More about Fact Models: Structuring the Basic Business Knowledge.

V. A THEORY OF BUSINESS RULES: A TUTORIAL ON THE FORMAL BASIS FOR BUSINESS RULES AND BUSINESS RULE NOTATION.

15. Three Perspectives on Business Rules: A Framework for Formal @AHEADS = Discussion.
16. The Theoretical Foundation of Rules: About Formal Constraints.
17. The Theoretical Foundation of Facts: About Predicates.
18. Higher-Order Rules: Pattern-R Rule Types.
Appendices for Part V.
Glossary.
Bibliography